"I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments."

-- Hari Kunzru

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Important Quotes

“I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.”
“Error is ever the sequence of haste.”
“Ukraine is a tinderbox, and the fuse is lit. There is no solution through violence in Ukraine.”
“We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1725). “Love's Last Shift; or, the Fool in fashion. A comedy, etc”, p.49
“We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.”
“If some incarnation of evil as unambiguous as Hitler appeared again, I would have no moral qualms about killing the enemy. But in the modern world of moral murkiness, I prefer to keep my hands as clean of enemy blood as possible.”
“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”
“In his larger forms, Schubert is a wanderer. He likes to move at the edge of the precipice, and does so with the assurance of a sleepwalker. To wander is the Romantic condition; one yields to it enraptured, or is driven and plagued by the terror of finding no escape. More often than not, happiness is but the surface of despair.”

Source : Alfred Brendel (2015). “Music, Sense and Nonsense: Collected Essays and Lectures”, p.167, Biteback Publishing

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